This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lane, Davenport, Lucas, Graves Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0AC.2ACI/551.919.2.1 Message Board Post: Hi Patty-- Yes, your descriptions ring lots of bells with me...this is my LANE clan! William LANE was indeed b. in Limerick in 1844, in fact it's Askeaton, Limerick, according to William Lane's father Patrick's tombstone in Pleasantview Cemetery in Ludlow. You helped me solve a big questions regarding William and Bridget LUCAS LANE..William's pension papers said over and over that he only had one child, but in the 1900 census I find a William LANE (child) and what I thought was Livvie LANE (child). Thanks for letting me know these were extended family members! I can remove lots of ???'s from my file on this family! William's Civil War pension file is an incredible wealth of info. It arrived in a box...not the usual envelope. The most interesting tidbit, however, was that Patrick Lane was NOT the biological father of William Lane. Martha DAVENPORT LANE had been married before, to a Michael O'DONNELL, who fathered William. Michael O died sometime before 1848, and when Martha married Patrick (William was "a baby") William took the Lane name. I will email you off-line with some additional info on this clan. I'd sure love to learn of Martha Davenport O'Donnell Lane's ancestors...I know there are/were many Davenports in Mt. Holly...were they related??? Thanks for the info. Bonnie Chicago